Back to school
Subtitle: Jewish day school in the lives of adult Jews
By: Alex Pomson and Randal F. Schnoor ; with a foreword by Jack Wertheimer.
Contributors: Schnoor, Randal F.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780814333839
Subjects: Jewish day schools -- United States; Jewish day schools -- Canada; Jews -- United States -- Identity; Jews -- Canada -- Identity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why study day-school parents?; title: A school downtown : the ethnographic context for the study; title: The winding road to school : why and how parents choose DJDS; title: What are parents doing at school? framing the interactions between parents and their children's schools; title: The school as Shul : Jewish day schools as places of worship, study, and assembly, for parents; title: The school at home : private encounters between parents and their children's school; title: Beyond downtown to the suburbs : testing the limits of the DJDS case; title: Conclusion : learning from what's downtown; title: References; title: Index.